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· 12/9/1918

Paton v. Cashmere Warehouse & Storage Co.

Citations

  • 104 Wash. 414
  • 176 P. 544
  • 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1196

Syllabus

<p>Highways (53, 57) — Use for Travel — Negligence—Meetings— Turning to Deft. Under Rem. Code, § 5562-26, requiring persons on meeting, to seasonably turn to the right of the center of the highway, it is negligence, which was the proximate cause of the accident, for the driver of a truck, already to the left of the center, to suddenly swerve to the left and strike the rear of an approaching auto that was at the extreme right of a level road fifty feet wide.</p>

Judges: Fullerton, Main, Mitchell, Parker, Tolman

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